Catholic Word of the Day: I.H.S., 09-14-10

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I.H.S.

Iesus (Jesus) Hominum Salvator (usual interpretation), Jesus Savior of Men. Really a faulty Latin transliteration of the first three letters of JESUS in Greek (IHS for IHC).

See Also: IESOUS HEMETEROS SOTER,

See Also: IESUS HOMINUM SALVATOR,

See Also: JESUS

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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One of these is already posted on the Word of the Day series; it's just how they come up randomly.

Iesus Hominum Salvator

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IESOUS HEMETEROS SOTER

Jesus our Savior. Greek title found in early Christian inscriptions.

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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JESUS

The name Our Lord. It is the Latin form of the Greek Iesous, whose Hebrew is Jeshua or Joshua, meaning Yahweh is salvation. It is the name through which God the Father is to be invoked and by which the Apostles worked miracles (Acts 3, 6). In standard usage the name "Jesus" is applied to the Son of Mary, who is also the Son of God; as distinct from "Christ," which refers to his Messianic role as the fulfillment of the ancient prophecies.

See Also: SACRAMENT OF GOD

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.  

 

 

That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.  

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It's not a faulty transliteration.

In uncial Greek script, the first three letters (iota, eta and sigma) look like IHC, but the Latin transliteration was IHS because Latin I is the equivalent of iota, H was used to transliterate eta since there was no other one-letter equivalent for the Greek eta in Latin (the sound is one letter in Greek, but a two-letter diphthong in Latin), and Latin S is the Latin transliteration for sigma.